Combination coffee and tea pot



Patanted llar. ll. I902v W. RUNHBACHER & B. WEDIIELL.

GOIBIHIUO" COFFEE AND TEA PDT.

(PM llld July 6. 1901.:

In loin.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

'ILLIAM ROIIRBAOHER AND ROBERT \VEDDELL, OF DUQUESNE, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINATION COFFEE AND TEA POT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 695,173, dated March 1 1, 1902.

Application filed July 8, 1901. serial No. 67.534. (No model.)

This invention relates to cerlain new and useful improvements in combination coffee and ten pots, and broadly has for its object the provision of novel means whereby both coffee and ten or chocolate and coliee may be cooked in one vessel.

Briefly described, the invention consists in a vessel having compartments with a chamber common to each, the chamber being in communication with n spout and having aport in each compartment in which operates the valves carried by rods. These rods extend to a point in proximity to the top of the vessel and are operated independently by means of levers carried by the vessel.

The invention also consists in the novel combination and arrangement. of parts to be hereinafter more fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

In descrihingthe invention in detail referonce is had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this speoitication,and wherein like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which- Fign re 1 is a side elevation of our improved coifee and tea pot. Fig. 2 is a. vertical sectioual view thereof, taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 4 looking in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical sectional view of Fig. l of the drawings at right angles to Fig. :3. Fig. 4 is atop plan viewl Fig. 5 is n plan View of the lower portion of the partilion. Fig. 6 is a plan and side view of the gutdesarrnnged on the partition. Fig. 7 is it top plan view of the cluuulmr. Fig. 5 is on end view thereof. Fig. H is a top plan view of one of the opornllug-bundles.

In tho druwingstho lcl'nl'oncc-uumoral 1 indicntou tho body portion of the vessel, and :3

representsa central partition, havingan opening 3 formed therein and a cut-away portion 4.

The reference-n nmeral 5 representsachatnher arr'nnged on the bottom of the vessel and secured in the recessed portion 3 of the pnrtition.

The reference!) tunernls 6 6 represent openings arranged in the upper portion of the chamber on each side of the partition.

7 represents an opening formed in the side of the chamber, communicating with the spout S, secured on the bottom of the vessel, and extending through the same.

The reference-numeral 10 represents lugs secured on each side of the partition, having formed therein apertures 11 for the reception of the operatingrods l2 12. These rods carry on their lower ends valves it, which open and close the opening 6 of the chamber. These rods also carry washers 15, having interposed between the upper face of said washers and the cross picce 16 of the vesselsprings 17. To said cross-piece 16 are secured hinged lids or covers 18 for each compartment of the vessel.

The reference-nu moral 19 represents a. handle rigidly secured to the side of the vessel, and 20 represents at ball. The operatingwods 12 extend through openings formed in the cross-piece 16 of the vessel and are bent over, forming hooked portions 21. These hooked portions engage in eyes :22, formed on the operating-levers 23, which are pivotnlly mounted upon bearings 24, rigidly secured to the cross-piece 16 of the vessel.

The operation of our improved coffee and ten pot is as follows: Normally both valves are closed, and when it is desired to extract eolfeo from the can one of the operating-levers 34, extending into the compartments of the can containing the coffee, is operated by depressing the end oi the operating-lover, thereby raising the operating-rod,.opening the valve in the chamber, and allowing the coll'co to [low into said chamber through the spout, as will be readily understood. As the o u.-rutiug-lover is released the spring 17 will again return the lover to its uoruml position and nutuuuttinnlly close the valve by the oxpnusiun of lJlO spring [7.

it will he soon that the rluuubvr, as well its the spout, is arranged at the bottom of the can in order to drain the coffee or tea, as the case may be, that when the change is made from one to the other that all the coffee or ten in the chamber and spent will be drained therefrom.

The many advantages obtained by the use of our improved device will be readily apparent from the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings.

It will be noted that various changes may be made in the details of construction without departing from the general spirit of our invention.

Having fully described our in renlion, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Let.- ters Patent, is-

1. Inadevice of the character described, a vessel having a. partition therein, a chamber carried by the bottom of ,the said vessel and extending on each side of said partition, n spout communicating with said chamber, ports in said chamber, valves in said pol-ts, spring-pressed operating-rods connected to said valves, and means carried by the cover for operating sold rods independently, substantially as described.

2. In ndevicc of the character described, a vessel having a partition therein, a chamber carried by the bottom of said vessel, ports in said chamber located one on each side of said partition, a spout couununicating with said chamber, spring-pressed rods carrying valves, said valves operating in said ports, the upper ends of said rods extending above the top of the vessel, hearings carried by the vessel, and operatingdevers connected to the said ends of the rods, substantially as described.

3. In a vessel having compartments therein with a chamber common to each, the chamber being in communication with a. spout and having a port in each compartment, rods carrying valves extending to a, point in proxiruity to the top and being independently operated by levers carried by the vessel, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM ROHRBACHER. ROBERT WEDDELL.

W i tncsses:

JOHN Nonnsn, E. E. lor'rnn. 

